This film consists of two unedited clips from Part 2 of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) American Experience documentary series, "Chicago: City of the Century". It describes the railroad strike of 1877, the development of the labor movement in Chicago, the eight hour day movement and worker protests at McCormick Reaper factories, the bomb that killed Chicago police at Haymarket square, and the execution of Chicago anarchists whose writings and speeches were blamed for the...
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Topics: Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), American Experience, Documentary, film, video, Chicago, police,...
This is a collection of digital copies of engraved illustrations of scenes related to the Haymarket bombing, trial, executions and legacy from 1886-87. Individual jpegs have title and author information embedded in the files, while file names carry the date and publication where the illustration was originally published. These digital files originally appeared on the web site of the Chicago History Museum here: http://www.chicagohs.org/hadc/hadctoc.htm. Historic photographs related to Haymarket...
Topics: Chicago, police, Haymarket, Martyrs, Haymarket Riot, Haymarket Incident, Haymarket Affair, 1886,...
